Today is an important day for international co-operation with the countries affected by Ebola. Now is the time to lay the foundations for sustained economic and social recovery from the Ebola crisis in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The Governments of the three countries have made that very clear, and are in the process of developing their recovery strategies, while also being determined to drive towards zero cases of Ebola as soon as possible.

As the international community works to get to zero Ebola cases in West Africa, the international community must work with Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone to address the underlying causes of the crisis said the UN’s development chief today at the Ebola Conference hosted by the European Union in Brussels.

Football legends and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassadors Ronaldo and Zinédine Zidane will team up with other football greats for a match against an All-Star team to help boost Ebola recovery efforts at the 12th Match against Poverty.

On the occasion of the launch of a new articulated platform for an integrated territorial development in Cuba, decentralized cooperation actors are invited in La Havana for a workshop organised by the government of Cuba with the support of the United Nations Development Programme.

UNDP is hosting a regional dialogue on HIV, rights and universal access in Eastern Europe in Tbilisi, Georgia. The dialogue brought together more than 70 distinguished members of civil society, government and international organizations that work in the field of HIV from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.

Being UNDP and not a medical organization, our focus is mainly not on the direct treatment for Ebola patients. Instead, to complement the work of the many excellent organizations that are building and staffing Ebola hospitals, we’re working to prevent the further spread of the disease in poor communities, and helping to keep the countries’ economies and societies from collapsing in terror and paralysis.

At the occasion of the UN Day, the United Nations Team in Brussels is pleased to present the ninth Annual UN-EU Partnership report on the results of our collaboration with the European Union in 2013. The report spans the range of our joint actions across the world, both thematically and geographically. The web photo publication and the videos included in the report will take you through the results of our work on the ground.

In the framework of the Dialogues on the Implementation of the Post 2015 Agenda, promoted by the United Nations Development Group, the co-leads of the Dialogues on Localizing the Post 2015 Agenda - the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Human Settlement Programme, on behalf of the United Nations Development Group, and the Global Task Force of Local and Regional Governments - organized the Final High Level Global Dialogue on Localizing the Post 2015 Agenda, which was celebrated on the 14th and 15th of October and hosted by the Municipality of Turin.

South Eastern Europe is the richest region within European Union in potential for hydro energy, solar energy, wind energy and biomass.
The majority of potentials are still unused because many of the countries still heavily rely energy from fossil fuels, particularly on base load energy from coal power plants.

Recognising the urgent need for a comprehensive Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration across the Mano River and the Sahel Sahara regions in order to enhance security, the European Union, in agreement with ECOWAS, is putting in 5.56 million Euro into the UNDP-managed project which runs for a period of 3 years.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) launched a new funding facility, inviting financial service providers to develop new ways of enabling low-income and rural Pacific Islanders to access affordable savings, insurance, credit and other financial services.

UNDP, together with the European Union, will support communities’ renovation projects in eight rayons (counties) that are now considered relatively safe, and will help towns hosting internally displaced persons (IDPs) to prepare for the upcoming winter. In addition, the UNDP-EU project will implement a program aimed at reintegration of the IDPs.

To respond to the increasing socio-economic challenges, UNDP scaled up its early recovery and resilience interventions in 2014 taking into consideration basic needs prioritized by local communities in affected areas including both IDPs and host communities.

We are at a very important moment in modern history, an inflection point, meaning that things are going to be very different in the future than they have been in the past. First, the role that developing countries play in the world – in the economy, science, technology, politics, culture – is changing dramatically. Their importance and influence, which is rising rapidly already, will increase greatly.